Canada's National Jazz Awards

Outside, up and down the length of Toronto's Bloor Street, Canadians were
celebrating the country's first Olympic gold medal in men's hockey in 50
years; inside the Bathurst Street Theatre Canada's best jazz musicians were
partying at the first National Jazz Awards.

Diana Krall scored a hat trick, winning in the categories of Record of
the Year, Musician of the Year and International Musician of the Year, but in
a quirk akin to the Academy Awards, where directors are often passed over
only to see their film win the Best Picture category, Krall lost the Vocalist
category to Carol Welsman.

Veteran Toronto musician Rob McConnell was the only other multiple winner, in
the Trombonist and Arranger categories.

In a ceremony preceding the awards, pianist Oscar Peterson was inducted into
the new Canadian Jazz & Blues Hall of Fame, scheduled to open in Barrie,
north of Toronto, and awarded the first-ever Bosendorfer Lifetime Achievement
Award by the renowned Austrian piano manufacturer. Peterson performed briefly
with bassist Dave Young.